These AI's are horrifically strong sometimes. Early game to mid game I'm still trying to expand my economy and research to support a military yet within 20 years the AI has a fleet of 60 and another of 23 corvettes.
This continues to Mid game where some AI start federating and even with an empire built around growing my economy extremely quick the AI have a federation fleet of over 5x me and my allies combined.
Then late game the AI just kinda drop off to rock bottom with all at pathetic power besides 1 or 2 ruler of all empires who keep up their overwhelming size.
Idk how they get this much alloy and support the upkeep aswell as keep up with all the other stats like research but if they declared war on me my empire would be shattered instantly.
Just want to know if it's a load order issue, a compatibility issue for something like NSC3 (I have the patch), or if I just suck at the game